Rodgers tentatively discussed ambitions and aspirations, Michael Nicholson opted to consolidate the Bank Balance further while the goals of Kuhn and Kyogo were removed from the managers options.
Really, if you can get the deal done and you get the valuation, what you think is right, then do it, move on and look to get the replacements in.
The summer transfer window was the opportunity to show that lessons have been learned, instead it has confirmed that the virus of complacency has set in deep across the club.
Referencing that a lot of hard work is going on behind the scenes is a favoured phrase from Rodgers, used when it appears that the club has ran out of ideas on how to improve the first team squad with a £3m ceiling imposed on transfer fees.
Almost certainly the same source has come up with both stories, that source is Wishful Thinking, a close friend of Fletcher.
When you’ve just scored four goals, that always seems to be OK, but we lost an important player in January in Kyogo, who scored a lot of goals, and we’ve lost Nicolas Kuhn, a lot of goals again, and even Matt O’Riley last summer.
Others, in the boardroom rub their hands, pat each other on the back and look across the city to remind themselves of their own brilliance.
Nicholson and the recruitment team have had plenty of notice that Kuhn was leaving, just as they had in January when Kyogo left for Rennes without any genuine attempt at signing a replacement.
Fortunately for Nicholson his bosses think that he is doing a fantastic job, the people that appointed a low profile Sports Lawyer as CEO, a job requiring a very different skillset.
Nicolas Kuhn appears to be the favoured fall guy among Celtic supporters following the Scottish Cup Final defeat to Aberdeen.Like almost all of his team-mates the form of the German winger has tailed off in the second half of the season, for whatever reasons it seems that Kuhn’s performances have…